Nursing Home & Elder Abuse | InjuryBoard Columbia

Jurors in the Mabel Taylor neglect of a care dependent person, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless endangerment trial will visit the scene of the nursing home on Monday. The former Ronald Reagan Atrium I Nursing, Research, and Rehabilitation Center was closed in 2004 and replaced with a diabetes treatment facility. Mrs. Taylor, age 88, died after being left in an outdoor, fenced courtyard...

The daughters of a woman who died in a California nursing home are suing the facility after the state found it failed to monitor the woman while she was on medication. Maria Tirado dies while on the anti-coagulant Coumadin, and the state fined the nursing home $94,000 for failing to monitor Tirado despite orders from her physician. Tirado died Jan. 18, after suffering from massive bleeding on...